Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Vita Alexandri Magni, libri 3-10 manuscript, 14th or 15th century.

Authors

• Curtius Rufus, Quintus, author.

Other related names

• Senas, Henri-Balthazar-Armand de Gérente, Marquis de, 1740- former owner., former owner
• Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876, former owner., former owner
• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.111
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224772

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Contains an incomplete text on the life of Alexander the Great (books one and two are lacking), with a brief text describing the death of king Darius by Marcus Junianus Justinus inserted after Book five (leaves 66r-67r).

Notes

• Manuscript on vellum (goatskin).
   
• Title from a later hand on the inside cover.
   
• Uniform Title: [Historia Alexandri Magni]
   

Extent

Leaves i (paper) + 166 + i (paper); 235 x 160 mm

Collation

1-3¹⁰ 4-5⁸ 6-9¹⁰ 10-11⁸ 12-17¹⁰ 18⁴

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

vertical catchwords throughout.

Binding

Bound in 18th-century French sprinked sheepskin with gold tool arms on front and back covers and gold tooled spines. Spine title: Quintcurt Tom. II.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines (dimensions of written space: 170 x 85 mm); board-ruled with double vertical lines; occassional marginal notes.

Script

Written in Humanistic Cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Henri-Balthazar-Armand de Gérente, Marquis de Senas (binding armorial); Ambroise Firmin-Didot (booklabel); Samuel Allen; and W.T. Smedley (bookplate). Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.10

Subjects topical

• Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Historiae Philippicae. Books 11-12
• Italy
• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. --Manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --Italy --15th century
• Annotations (Provenance) --Italy --15th century --Manuscripts

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• History

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 3; incipit: [I]nter haec Alexander, ad conducendum ex Peloponenso militem Cleandro cum pecunia misso... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ...et nondum in omnium animis memoria maiestatis suae exoleuisse cernebat. [fol. 16v]
• fol. 16v — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 4; incipit: [D]areus, tanti modo exercitus rex, qui triumphantis magis quam dimicantis... [fol. 16v]; explicit: ...et rege talibus ministries et illos tanto rege fuisse dignissimos. [fol. 47v]
• fol. 47v — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 5; incipit: [Q]uae interim ductu imperioque Alexandri uel in Graecis uel Illyriis ac Thraecia gesta sunt... [fol. 47v]; explicit: ...plurimis eius beneficiis ornatus, iugum eius tota ceruice receperit.
• fol. 66r — Marcus Junianus Justinus, On the Death of King Darius [Books 11.15-12.1]; incipit: Emensus deinde plura multa passuum cum nullum Darii indicium reperisset... [fol. 66r]; explicit: ...ad postremum etsi a multitudine uictus, gloria tamen omnes uicit.
• fol. 67r — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 6; incipit: pugnae discrimen inmisit obtruncatisque qui promptius resistebant, magnam partem... [fol. 67r]; explicit: ...uidebatur post confessionem; et neque Philotas amicorum misericordiam meruit. [fol. 87r]
• fol. 87r — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 7; incipit: [P]hilotan sicut recentibus sceleris eius uestigiis iure affectum supplicio... [fol. 87r]; explicit: ...regionisque quae apposita esset ei tutela relictus. [fol. 108v]
• fol. 108v — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 8; incipit: [A]lexander, maiore fama: quam gloria in dicionem redacta petra... [fol. 108v]; explicit: ...eandem clariorem fore, quo maiores fuissent, quos ipse uicisset. [fol. 133v]
• fol. 133v — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 9; incipit: [A]lexander tam memorabilia uictoria laetus, qua sibi orientis finis apertos... [fol. 133v]; explicit: ...adeo nec luxuriae quicquam crudelitas nec crudelitati luxuria obstat. [fol. 152v]
• fol. 152v — Vita Alexandri Magni, Book 10; incipit: [E]isdem fere diebus Cleander et Sitalces et cum Agathone Heracon superueniunt... [fol. 152v]; explicit: ...post annis Alexandriam translatum omnisque memoriae ac nomini honos habetur. [fol. 166v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Booklabel, Ambroise Firmin-Didot
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, W.T. Smedley